ACL compiles a daily media monitoring service of stories of interest to the Christian constituency relating to children, family, drugs and alcohol, marriage, human rights, religious freedom etc. Visit the ACL’s website each day to see what’s of interest in the news. Please note that selection of the articles does not represent ACL endorsement of the content.

Jacinta Collins, a pro-life Labor senator catapulted into the party's leadership team upon the return of Kevin Rudd, has revealed how she became pregnant as a teenager and gave up her son for adoption.

A pro-choice and anti-pornography group has organized a "Freedom Rider" tour that kicked off in New York City and San Francisco last month. End Patriarchy Now launched a month long, cross-country campaign to call for "abortion on demand, and without apology."

Kevin Rudd has unveiled a $357 million package to modernise hospital and medical treatment facilities, boost the health workforce and provide updated diagnostic and treatment technologies around the country.

It's been promoted as a way of boosting the economy of a city under threat by its major employer cutting jobs: legalise same-sex marriage in Canberra and promote the ACT as a wedding destination for gays and lesbian couples from around Australia.

The suits fit, the flowers have been chosen and the wedding vows written. Admittedly, the bridesmaid's dress caused weeks of consternation but Paul McCarthy says he is finally ready to marry his long-term partner, Trent Kandler, in New Zealand on Monday.

Labor's shock decision to recruit Peter Beattie as its candidate for the federal Queensland electorate of Forde appears to have backfired spectacularly, with the Coalition on track to win the seat in a landslide, The Australian Financial Review reports.

It should have been a golden day for Christine Milne as Heart Reef came into view, amid the glistening splendour of the Whitsunday Islands. The sun had burned through the morning fog and it was as if you could see forever, the way the turquoise sea folded into that deep blue horizon we were flying towards.

Labor's PNG solution was ''unravelling'', said Coalition immigration minster Scott Morrison, after the country’s Prime Minister Peter O'Neill denied the two central elements of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's tough new asylum-seeker policy – that PNG will settle all those determined to be refugees and that none will end up in Australia.

Churches across Egypt came under frenzied attack as the country became convulsed in violent turmoil after security forces forcibly broke up two Cairo protest camps held by supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Hundreds of Australians accessing pornography online have been caught - some quite literally - with their pants down by cyber criminals who fraudulently claim to be members of the Australian Federal Police.